Max Hawthorne Quotes Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things. — Conor Oberst

When it comes to overcoming writing hurdles, getting sick is like suffering a review from a critic with an axe to grind; you can't let it get you down! — Max Hawthorne

Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times. — Max Hawthorne

Life's already a gamble. Don't let love be one, too. — Max Hawthorne

A writer's mind is like a teapot. The words build up in your head until you just gotta let 'em out. — Max Hawthorne

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age. — Max Hawthorne

Reading consists of perusing razor-thin slices of perpetuity, wrenched from the heart of a murdered tree, and infused with the dark blood that swirls within the hidden depths of every writer's soul. It is their combined angst - the author's and the tree's - that we partake of when we immerse ourselves in the pages of a book. — Max Hawthorne

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't believe in your God. And he sure as hell doesn't believe in me. — Max Hawthorne

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it. — Max Hawthorne

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty. — Max Hawthorne

I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .

Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers! — Max Hawthorne

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare. — Peter T. King

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

There are certain things money can't buy. Chief among these are manners, class, honor and integrity. Oh, and sanity. Let's not forget that one . . . — Max Hawthorne

I like big back-stories and I cannot lie. — Max Hawthorne

Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk. — John L. Monk

To make love last, you've got to treat it like the ultimate poker hand; you've got to go all in. — Max Hawthorne

My dearest friend, Myron Bolitar, though "friend" seems an inadequate word to describe our relationship, worries about this aspect of my personality. He feels there is something "missing" inside of me. He traces it back to what my own mother did to my father. But does the origin matter? This is what I am. I am quite content this way. He claims that I don't get it. He is wrong. I do understand the need for companionship. My favorite times are when he and I sit around together and simply discuss life or watch television or dissect a sporting event - and then, when we are done, I go to bed with a gorgeous body and, uh, gorge. Does — Harlan Coben

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. — Joe Morton

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction. — Paul Auster

Those who can write, write.
Those who can't, criticize. — Max Hawthorne

Sometimes, I'll craft a scene that's so poignant; on the last keystroke I'll raise my hands high overhead and scream "Yes!" at the top of my lungs. I have yet to experience an orgasm so powerful and fulfilling. — Max Hawthorne